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James Thrift

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Graham Readfearn @readfearn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
From me - "It’s an ashen pallor": More than 80% of the world’s reefs now hit by bleaching during worst global event on record.
theguardian.com
More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record
An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says
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James Thrift @jamesthrift.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Lovely piece by the indubitably lovelier Jon Canter.
thetimes.com
Douglas Adams was a genius — and my bathroom-hogging flatmate
A new documentary shows how the author foresaw the future in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (and based Marvin the Paranoid Android on me)
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
My latest @bigissue.com column is about my love for the work of Douglas Adams (and not so much love for Adams’s fan Elon Musk) - buy the big issue PLEASE
On the importance of love
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James Thrift @jamesthrift.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Driving a Tesla is just like making love to your favourite pornstar.
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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
No one seemed to object when Churchill turned up at the White House in the clothes he fought the war in.
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James Thrift @jamesthrift.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Where are you Starmer? #keirstarmer
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Richard Harris @beeblebrox.com · 21/02/2025
Here we go: the utter technological illiteracy and anti-democratic nature of the UK's RIPA Act has now led Apple to remove end-to-end encryption from the UK. So we're all now more vulnerable to the Trumps and Putins of this world, and shame on Starmer for continuing to support this PoS legislation.
Screenshot showing Apple's removal of end-to-end encryption for UK users, thanks to the idiocy of the UK governments
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James Thrift @jamesthrift.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
UK government blows its bloody foot off! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.
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James Thrift @jamesthrift.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Good to see freedom of speech so high on the agenda in the USA at the moment…… A ‘great shock’: Julianne Moore’s children’s book under review by Trump administration
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James Thrift @jamesthrift.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Does the UK realise that making a "backdoor" for the good guys enables access for the bad? #apple #encryption #ips #adp www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK government demands access to Apple users' encrypted data
The Home Office served the notice to the tech giant under the Investigatory Powers Act.
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